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This page contains details of conferences, events and seminars either organised and run by SLSA members or of interest to them.

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2023

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Latest  events . . .

Recognise Platform Launch, Maastricht University, Netherlands

Art and the Market: Examining the Intersections between Museums, Philanthropy, Commerce and the Law, York 

Egalitarian Digital Privacy: SICCL author meets readers, University of Sheffield and online

Oxford Centre: Annual Lecture 2023, Wolfson College, Oxford

VSR Yearly Conference 2023: The next generation, Amsterdam: call for papers and panels

Tax Research Network Conference 2023, University of Cambridge: call for papers

SLSA events and co-sponsored events 

SLSA 2023 University of Ulster: online registration; accommodation and travel: registration closes on 24 March at noon

Prevent, Surveil and Protect: The fight against terrorism, online one-day symposium

Fantasy Legal Exhibitions, London: call for participants

Sheffield Institute for Corporate and Commercial Law is hosting a author meets readers event

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March

Prevent, Surveil and Protect: The fight against terrorism

Date: 27 March 2023

Venue: online via Teams from University of Sunderland

See announcement for details and website for registration. This event is supported through funding from the SLSA Seminar Competition.

AHTV: Exploring research in television

Date: 28 March 2023

Venue: Conway Hall, London, and online

Speaker: Janina Ramirez

See website for details.

Towards Autonomous Borders? Assessing the Human Rights and Rule of Law Challenges of the Deployment of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Systems for Migration Management

Date: 29 March 2023

Venue: Queen Mary University of London, tbc

See website for details.

Housing Studies Association Annual Conference 2023

Dates: 29–31 March 2023

Venue: Sheffield

Theme: 'From the Floorboards Up: Foundations and Futures of Housing Justice'

See website for details.

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April

British Institute of International and Comparative Law: short courses programme 2023

Dates: spring and autumn 2023

Venue: Russell Square, London, and online  

See website for details.

International Institute for the Sociology of Law: Workshop Programme 2023

Dates: April—May 2023

Venue: IISL, Oñati, Spain

See website for details for details of this year’s extensive programme or contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

The Director's Seminar Series: Current attitudes towards international law in Russia

Date: 3 April 2023

Venue: onIine from IALS

Speaker: Professor Tim Potier

See website for details.

SLSA Annual Conference 2023

Dates: 6–9 April 2023

Venue: University of Ulster,  Derry-Londonderry

Further coming soon.

A Century after Pan-African Congress, London: Pan-Africanism and the Making of Black Inter-national Constitution(s)

Date: 11 April 2023

Venue: tbc 

Speaker: Professor Tshepo Madlingozi, Director of the Centre for Applied Legal Studies and an Associate Professor at the School of Law at the University of the Witwatersran.

This is the QMUL Centre for Law and Society in a Global Context's 2023 Annual Lecture. See website for details.

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Law and Justice – A vexed relationship

Date: 12 April 2023

Venue: Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road

Speaker: Raju Bhatt, founding partner, Bhatt Murphy

See website for details of this free event.

Book discussion: Terror Trials: Life and Law in Delhi's Courts by Mayur Suresh

Date: 13 April 2023

Venue: online from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

Jointly organised by Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University, SOAS and Centre for Law and Humanities, OP Jindal Global University. See announcment for details.

Recognise Platform Launch

Date: 13 April 2023

Venue: Maastricht University, Netherlands

See website for details of this free in-person event.

Association of Law Teachers Annual Conference 2023

Dates: 17–18 April 2023

Venue: University of Westminster, London

See website for details..

Reproductive Justice in a Post-Covid World: Transnational Protest and Resistance

Dates: 18–19 April 2023

Venue: University of Cambridge

See website for details. This event is part of the British Academy conferences programme.

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Public Law and the EU

Date: 24 April 2023

Venue: Allen and Overy, One Bishops Square, London E1 6AD

Organised by the Public Law Project, in partnership with Allen and Overy and Monckton Chambers. See website for details.

Book Launch: Conscientious Objection in Turkey - A Socio-legal Analysis of the Right to Refuse Military Service

Date: 26 April 2023

Venue: Durham Law School and online

Author: Dr Demet Asli Caltekin

See website for details.

Beyond Brexit: The future of UK Trade Policy

Date: 27 April 2023

Venue: Hoare Memorial Hall, Church House, Great Smith Street, London

See website for details of this University of Sussex event..

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May

Annual McGill Graduate Law Conference titled: Law & Prejudice

Dates: 4–5 May 2023

Venue: Hybrid/Montreal, Canada

See announcement for details. 

International Conference of the Center for Transdisciplinary Gender Studies (ZtG)

Dates: 4–6 May 2023

Venue: Humboldt Universität zu Berlin

See website for details. 

Student Legal Theory Conference

Date: 5 May 2023

Venue: Zagreb, Croatia

See website for details. 

Egalitarian Digital Privacy: SICCL author meets readers

Date: 10 May 2023

Venue: University of Sheffield and online

Sheffield Institute for Corporate and Commercial Law iauthor-meets-readers event with Professor Tsachi Keren-Paz. See website for details.

Plural Visions of Law – The legacy of Joseph Raz, York

Date: 11 May 2023

Venue: University of York

See announcement for details. 

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In Conversation with Lord Pannick KC and Joshua Rozenberg KC

Date: 11 May 2023

Venue: New Academic Building, LSE, London

See website for details of this Support Through Court event.

Art and the Market: Examining the Intersections between Museums, Philanthropy, Commerce and the Law

Dates: 11–12 May 2023

Venue: The Guildhall, York 

See website for details of this free British Academy/University of York event.

Association for Law, Property, & Society Annual Meeting

Dates: 11–13 May 2023

Venue: University of Southampton

See announcement for details. 

Evidentiary Regimes of UN Treaty Bodies: Perspectives from research and practice

Dates: 15–16 May 2023

Venue: Ghent, Belgium

See website for details. This event is organised by the DISSECT HORIZON 2020 research project.

Inclusive Sussex: In Conversation event, featuring Professor Tom Shakespeare CBE FBA

Date: 17 May 2023

Venue: University of Sussex

See website for details. 

Reimagining Public Law

Date: 23 May 2023

Venue: Centre for Employability, Professional Legal Education and Research, Birmingham Law School

See announcement for details. 

23rd International Roundtables for the Semiotics of Law – IRSL 2023

Dates: 24–27 May 2023

Venue: hosted online by Pontificia Università Antonianum, Roma, Italy

Theme: Global Semiotics and Everyday Legal Claims – Intercultural Use of Law, Interreligious Dialogue and Translation Ethics

See announcement for full details.

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Postgraduate Workshop on Comparative Animal Law

Dates: 25–26 May 2023

Venue: online from Kent Law School and international partners

See website for details. 

Law and Society Association Graduate Student & Early Career Workshop

Date: 31 May 2023

Venue: San Juan, Puerto Rico

Applications are invited for this workshop convening immediately preceding the Law and Society Association Annual Meeting. See website for details. 

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June

LSA Annual Meeting 2023

Dates: 1–4 June 2023

Venue: Caribe Hilton, San Juan, Puerto Rico

See website for details. 

The Treatment of Immigrants in the European Court of Human Rights RESCHEDULED

Date: 12 June 2023

Venue: Moot Court, University of Sheffield School of Law, and online

Author meets Reader event at the Centre for Criminological Research with Dr Amanda Spalding. See website for details.

Oxford Centre: Annual Lecture 2023, Wolfson College

Date: 13 June 2023

Venue: Wolfson College, Oxford, 5pm–6.30pm

Theme: Possession Island: Queering Art, Queering Law

Guest Speaker: Professor Des Manderson, ANU College of Law & College of Arts and Social Sciences

All welcome, but booking is necessary. Drinks will be served afterwards. See website for details.

One-day Symposium on Sexuality, Nationality and Asylum: The New Plan for Immigration – call for papers

Date: 14 June 2023

Venue: Oxford Brookes University

Organisers: Dr Alex Powell, Lecturer in Law, Oxford Brookes University with the support of The Fundamental Rights and Equality Research Group, the Critical Legal Perspectives on Law, Society, Gender and Diversity research Group, and the Migration and Refugees Research Network, all at Oxford Brookes University. See announcement  for details. Call closes: 31 March 2023. If you have any questions, please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

ISA World Congress of Sociology: Session on Transnational Queer Politics and Human Rights

Dates: 25 June–1 July 2023

Venue: Melbourne, Australia

See website for details.

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Society of Legal Scholars Annual Conference

Dates: 27–30 June 2023

Venue: Oxford Brookes University

See website for details.

9th Annual International Weight Stigma Conference

Dates: 28–29 June 2023

Venue: Denver, Colorado, USA

See website for details. There is a rolling deadline for the call for posters.

WG Hart Workshop 2023: Theorists in company law

Dates: 29–30 June 2022

Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London

See website for details.  

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July

Sixth Tax Policy Conference

Dates: 3–4 July 2023

Venue: Centre for Tax Law, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge

See website for details. 

International Conference 'Combating Gender-based Violence': call for panellists

Dates: 3–6 July 2023

Venue: Lille University, France

See announcement for Panel 1 and Panel 2 for details. Closing date: 15 April 2023.

VSR Yearly Conference 2023: The next generation: call for papers and panels

Date: 6–7 July 2023

Venue: University of Amsterdam

See website and announcement for details. Call closes: 1 May 2023. Please send panel proposals before the deadline.

Authoritarianism and Genocide: Narratives of exclusion 

Dates: 10–14 July 2023

Venue: Barcelona, Spain

This is the 16th Biennial Meeting of the International Association of Genocide Scholars. See website for details.

Law and Humanities Roundtable 2023

Date: 14 July 2023

Venue: online and University of Verona

See announcement for details. 

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Fantasy Legal Exhibitions: call for participants

Dates: 18–19 July 2023

Venues: British Museum, Postal Museum, Middle Temple and  IALS, London

See announcement for details. Closing date: 28 April 2023. This event is supported throught the SLSA Seminar Competition.

Ninth Biennial Conference on Applied Legal Storytelling

Dates: 26–28 July 2023

Venue: City Law School, University of London

See announcement for details. 

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August

Institute for Peace & Dialogue: 13th Summer Academy – call for participants

Dates: 7–21 August 2023

Venue: Basel, Switzerland

See website for detalis. Early bird applications: 5 May 2023; late applications: 30 June 2023.

RCSL Annual Meeting: Law, society and digital pasts, presents and futures

Dates: 30 August–1 September 2023

Venue: Lund, Sweden

Organised by the Sociology of Law Department, Lund University. See website and poster for details. 

Working Group on the Sociology of Constitutions, RCSL Annual Meeting

Dates: 30 August–1 September 2023

Venue: Lund, Sweden

See announcement for details.

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September

Celebrating Women in Legal History: The lives and legacies of early women legal historians: call for abstracts

Date: 1 September 2023

Venue:  University of Liverpool School of Law and Social Justice

See attachment for details. Closing date for submissions: 21 April 2023.

Tax Research Network Conference 2023: call for papers

Dates: 5–7 September 2023

Venue: Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge

See website for details. Call closes: 16 April 2023.

International Creative Research Methods Conference

Dates: 11–12 September 2023

Venue: Manchester and online

See announcement for details. 

Pregnancy and the Law: call for papers

Date: 13 September 2023

Venue: Law School, University of Southampton and online

See announcement for details. Closing date for submission of abstracts: 1 June 2023.

IVR Japan International Conference 2023: call for papers

Date: 16–18 September 2023

Venue: Chiba University, Japan

See website for details. Call closes: 30 April 2023.

2023 COI congress: Just institutional approaches to conflict prevention and resolution: call for papers

Dates: 28–29 September 2023

Venue: Utrecht University

See website for details. Call closes: 24 March 2023.

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October

SAFI Conference on Punishment: call for abstracts

Dates: 5–7 October 2023

Venue: Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris

See website for details. Closing date: 31 March 2023.

International Access to Justice Forum 2023: call for papers

Dates: 11–13 October 2023

Venue: University of California Irvine

Hosted by UCI Law’s Initiative for Inclusive Civil Justice and the Victoria Law Foundation. See announcement for details. Closing date: 31 May 2023.

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November

AHRC Being Human Festival 2023: call for applications

Dates: 9–18 November 2023

Venues: UK-wide

See website for details. Closing dates vary. There is also an 'Applying to Being Human' webinar for interested parties on 29 March 2023.

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2024


IVR World Congress 2024

Date: tbc

Venue: Seoul, Republic of Korea

Theme: The Rule of Law, Justice and the Future of Democracy

See announcement. Further details will be published in due course.

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